Want your hotel to rank higher on Google? Do this.
True story: I used to hate SEO. As a hotel marketing manager sitting on-property, it felt like this big, challenging, technical task hovering over everything I did….
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Want your hotel to rank higher on Google? Do this.
True story: I used to hate SEO. As a hotel marketing manager sitting on-property, it felt like this big, challenging, technical task hovering over everything I did….
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Tripadvisor Takes Unusual Route With Private Equity Help to Build Its New Subscription Offering
Tripadvisor acknowledges that it is building its new subscription program, Tripadvisor Plus, with wholesale rates from “aggregators” — that it refuses to identify — covering 100,000 hotels…
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5 Reasons Why Hilton Continues to Grow Its Global Footprint, Despite Covid-19 Challenges
The Covid-19 pandemic has had an extraordinary impact on the global hospitality industry — yet Hilton saw continued growth and development across all categories and brands in 2020…
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Marriott’s Arne Sorenson Passes Away; Industry Reacts
Arne M. Sorenson, president/CEO of Marriott, unexpectedly died yesterday. He was 62. In May 2019, the company announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. On Feb…
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10 new creative room types to boost revenue
Hotel marketing has always been a blend of creativity and data. There’s equal parts of data-driven revenue management, copywriting and consumer psychology…
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“Lifelong learning”: why dual education institutions will lead the way
By 2022 – in just one year – more than 40% of core skills required to perform existing jobs are expected to change, as estimated by the World Economic Forum in their recent call for a “global reskilling revolution”…
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SB Architects Forecasts Trends Set to Shape the Future of Architecture
SB Architects, an award-winning international architecture firm focusing on designing soulful and inspiring destinations across hospitality, residential and mixed-use, has released the top trends they anticipate defining 2021 and beyond…
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How to prepare your hotel for summer staycations
Becoming increasingly apparent is the unlikelihood of summer holidays abroad. With dreams of boarding planes and jetting away into the sunshine essentially dashed, all any of us can do is start thinking about staycations…
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Airbnb: 2021 Will Be the Year of Meaningful Travel
Airbnb has released a new report and highlighted how 2021 will see a shift toward more meaningful travel as the pandemic continues to limit mass tourism and afflict the industry overall…
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After a year marred by a global public health crisis, 2020 has left many thirsty for in-person social gatherings with friends and family…
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Micro-weddings & Minimonies. Adapting Your Hotel for Small-Scale Celebrations
Lavish, over-the-top weddings with extensive guest lists are a thing of the past, at least for the near future…
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Patrick Landman: 5 Step Plan to Create the Perfect Guest Experience
It is now more important than ever to make every guest's stay be as fulfilling and enjoyable as possible for your hotel…
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‘Nobody Gets Out of This Stronger’ Says Langham Hotels CEO
Hospitality will be permanently altered by the pandemic. Here’s how one hotel group is handling it
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Casino mogul and political donor Sheldon Adelson dead at 87
Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, whose gambling and hotel businesses turned him into a major political power broker in the US and Israel, has died.
He was 87.
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When will international travel return? Here's what we know right now
There's hope: Summer vacations abroad may happen in a big way this year…
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Voice Search for the Tourism & Travel industry: All You Need to Know!
Voice search within the travel industry is one of the emerging trends that marketers, business owners and other senior figures within businesses in this area need to become aware of…
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IHG Hotels & Resorts has revealed planned openings for some of its brands in 2021. Here’s a look:
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From the rebound of key hotel performance metrics to the potential return of group demand and international travel, the U.S. hotel industry could take its first steps on a long road to recovery in 2021…
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